escapeHtml

The escapeHtml function escapes special HTML characters in a string to their corresponding HTML entities.

Syntax

escapeHtml(str: string): string

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
str	string	The input string to be escaped.

Returns

Type	Description
string	The escaped string with HTML entities.

Example

escapeHtml('<div class="test">"Hello" & \'World\'</div>');
// Output: '&lt;div class=&quot;test&quot;&gt;&quot;Hello&quot; &amp; &#39;World&#39;&lt;/div&gt;'

Notes

• Escapes the following characters: &, <, >, ", and '.
• Throws TypeError if the input is not a string.

References

• MDN: String.prototype.replace()